Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/1] configure: Add RISC-V host support

[Peter Maydell]

On 30 July 2018 at 19:20, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> Before this patch:
>
> $ ./configure
>
> ERROR: Unsupported CPU = riscv64, try --enable-tcg-interpreter
>
> $ ./configure --enable-tcg-interpreter
> Unsupported CPU = riscv64, will use TCG with TCI (experimental)
>
> [...]
>
> WARNING: SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST CPU WILL GO AWAY IN FUTURE RELEASES!


> It is unlikely the RISC-V port goes away in the next future releases :)

...but it is not supported as a *host* CPU.

We should fix this somewhat nonsensical error message by
completing the deprecate-and-drop cycle for this bit of
configure, ie by outright rejecting attempts to build on
host CPU types we don't recognize and support, the same
way we do with unrecognized host OS types.

thanks
-- PMM